Planned Parenthood v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), Women's Medical Professional Corp. v. Voinovich (1997)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Utah Women's Clinic, Inc. v. Leavitt · Robert P. Casey Allan S. Noonan Ernest D. Preate, Jr. v. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania Reproductive Health and Counseling Center Women's Health Services, Inc. Women's Suburban Clinic Allentown Women's Center and Thomas Allen, M.D., and the Honorable Daniel H. Huyett, 3rd, Judge, United States District Court, Nominal Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania Reproductive Health and Counseling Center Women's Health Services, Inc. Women's Suburban Clinic Allentown Women's Center Thomas Allen, M.D., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Robert P. Casey N. Mark Richards Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Personally and in Their Official Capacities Michael D. Marino, Personally and in His Official Capacity, Together With All Others Similarly Situated Robert P. Casey, N. Mark Richards and Ernest D. Preate, Jr.“The evidence of record persuades me that the expectation of plaintiff-clinics that referring physicians and, to a lesser extent, performing physicians will terminate their relationship with the clinics is reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robert P. Casey Allan S. Noonan Ernest D. Preate, Jr. v. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania Reproductive Health and Counseling Center Women's Health Services, Inc. Women's Suburban Clinic Allentown Women's Center and Thomas Allen, M.D., and the Honorable Daniel H. Huyett, 3rd, Judge, United States District Court, Nominal Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania Reproductive Health and Counseling Center Women's Health Services, Inc. Women's Suburban Clinic Allentown Women's Center Thomas Allen, M.D., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Robert P. Casey N. Mark Richards Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Personally and in Their Official Capacities Michael D. Marino, Personally and in His Official Capacity, Together With All Others Similarly Situated Robert P. Casey, N. Mark Richards and Ernest D. Preate, Jr. · Casey“may act in such a way as to deprive [the minor] of her right to have an abortion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.